This year’s “Survivor” theme is “San Juan del Sur – Blood vs. Water,” with nine couples competing. Misch, a Waterford native who played at MSU from 2007-10, is paired with Jaclyn Schultz, a media buyer in Las Vegas who was Miss Michigan USA 2013 and attended Michigan State and Central Michigan.

Misch says his personal claim to fame was winning the Big Ten championship at MSU in 2010, when the Spartans shared it with Wisconsin and Ohio State (though the Buckeyes had their wins vacated in 2010).

As for why Misch will survive “Survivor”? “I can build a fire from scratch, debone/gut a fish, catch lizards, and lift things up and put them down,” he said.

You can read more about their stories here, as well as the other eight pairs of contestants this season. This season of “Survivor” debuts 8 p.m. Sept. 24.